becoming a cyborg on a budget

Posted on: Thu, 05/08/2014 - 10:58 By: Tom Swiss

A wee bit cheaper than Six Million Dollars...

WUSTL students ‘print’ pink prosthetic arm for teen girl | Newsroom | Washington University in St. Louis

Thirteen-year-old Sydney Kendall had one request for the Washington University in St. Louis students building her a robotic prosthetic arm: Make it pink.

Kendall Gretsch, Henry Lather and Kranti Peddada, seniors studying biomedical engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, accomplished that and more. Using a 3-D printer, they created a robotic prosthetic arm out of bright-pink plastic. Total cost: $200, a fraction of the price of standard prosthetics, which start at $6,000.